Author Archives: The Bewdley School

We have a very carefully structured curriculum with much of Year 9 based around supporting students to make informed choices. The current restrictions will inevitably cause a significant disruption to curriculum arrangements, the scope of which we will not fully understand until schools return to normal operation. However, we would be reckless not to have… Read more

In the late 1990s/early 2000s I was fortunate to be Head of Sixth Form at Llanidloes High School in heart of Mid-Wales. We had great demand for A Levels in Law, Psychology and Sociology, but couldn’t recruit teachers in our sparsely populated rural location. Our solution was to use a company called Moorhouse Black to… Read more

We hope you all had a restful Easter break and welcome to our very first remote summer term! We’ve all had to adapt to new ways of working, so we wanted to take the chance to say what an amazing job you’re doing supporting your child’s wellbeing and learning during this time. It has definitely… Read more

A brief message from us as a school to say thank you for all of your support in taking our school online, during these very difficult times. For those of you who have concerns regarding refunds or reschedules for school visits, we have published a letter earlier today, which you can find here. We would… Read more

We have been asked by some parents about Risk Protection Arrangements or Schemes in relation to the ongoing cancellation of school trips and visits. Risk Protection Arrangements (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-risk-protection-arrangement-rpa-for-schools) were introduced as a government scheme for Academies to buy into, to compensate for the fact that they were no longer covered by Local Authority Insurance. This… Read more

Now we have settled into our online curriculum, there are a number of consequences to the current situation for schools across the country, which we will continue to update you with as further information emerges. Year 6 Induction for new students This would ordinarily take place in July, and whilst this still may happen it… Read more

At the end of a very different week for us all, we are delighted to be able to report to you that our shift to online learning has been as seamless as we could have hoped under the circumstances. From a school population of over 900 we only have 24 students not engaging at all… Read more

Thank you for your support in ensuring that your children are kept safe at home and are engaging with online learning. We have launched our Covid-19 section on our website to help with this: https://www.bewdley.worcs.sch.uk/covid-19/, this section contains all our latest news, along with study resources for Years 7 to 10 should students require further… Read more

In light of recent changes to assessment we understand that some of you are anxious about how you will access your next step into the Sixth Form. We are in the fortunate position of knowing all of our internal students really well and as such can make offers to individuals based on this. We are… Read more

Thank you again for your continued commitment to protecting our community by keeping your child at home today. We have 3 children in school with parents of older children sensibly keeping their children at home. Given the government’s change in policy to what some reporters are calling ‘lockdown’, it is more important than ever that… Read more

As we approach our first week of school closure, with school providing a limited curriculum for only vulnerable and key worker’s children, some important reminders. The principles regarding the very limited number of children who should be in school: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should… Read more

Further to this week’s updates, telling you about online learning, laptop loans and school closure, we would now like to tell you about our Community Schooling Plan for vulnerable children and those of critical (key) workers. The underpinning principle for this is: If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then… Read more